WordPress was acting up so i did a shorty. This year’s offense looks to be the virtual opposite of the one the Giants trundled out in ’11. Belt is a basher and Buster a blaster. Dynamic duo at the plate, i think. Pence and Panda pop those peas too. Contributions from Crawford, Pagan and Adrianza cannot be overlooked either. Morse is a masher, Blanco a dasher and Perez an up and comer.

All in all there are no perceivable holes in the SF attack. Defense will come around. Last night was a combination of Opening Day heebiejeebies combined with parking lot field conditions.

Have the feeling there will be at least one position player making apologies to Bumgarner ~ either already last night or before this evening’s game. Hard to be an Ace with a swisscheese defense. Bochy pulled him for Blanco’s bat and that worked out a bit. Petit coughed up hairballs and then uprighted the liferaft before things got totally out of hand. Machi EARNED the win. Romo so-so but held on. Pitching is bound to improve, particularly when the team plays in venues more kind to the moundsmen.

Important thing is the Giants lead off with a win vs a powerful offensive team in their own Snakepit. Get on top and stay there. How do you do that? Beat up on your closest rivals. Snakes will be desperate tonight. Cain’s gotta make sure nobody’s on base if he reverts to surrendering taters. A vintage performance by the Horse would calm a lotta nerves around here.

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As a few Flappers have noted about themselves, I haven’t watched one minute of this series either. Season ended for me once I knew the Bums were eliminated. However, I still would like the Indians to win. For a myriad of reasons (perhaps talking to a few Cleveland friends I have), they are just so much more humble and appreciative of what this means to them. Anyway, my good friend, Tristan (a Giants fan) posted this on his FB page. Says it all, eh?

Yeah, rooked was big. Don’t know where it was derived from, although it usually was associated with card sharps. Gypped, unbeknownst to me, goes back to the 1800s and was a racial epithet related to gypsies (obvious, but I never thought about it).

Stix rarely had anything bad to say about Belt.
I think Belt’s 2016 was good in that he stayed healthy, but also shows what he needs to work on to get to next level. He’s a fine 1b and arguably Giants best hitter last year, tho AS might be a bit of a reach. Next year salary takes a big jump as contract kicks in. Trading him for pen help without getting a potential good bat I don’t think helps much.

A full year of Nunez I don’t think is going to make that big difference; he isn’t an AS 3b like he was for the Twins.
You could move Belt to LF and Posey to 1b, but finding a C who can hit is unlikely, so again it’s not bringing much more offense to the table. Posey at 1b is not going to be an AS there either.

I was very interested in signing Justin Turner for 3B and moving Nunez to LF until I saw how inexperienced he is as an outfielder. Still wondering if there’s a way to make that work somehow. Maybe sign Turner and package Nunie? Think Turner could whack 25 at ATT?

Not to spoil anything for those intending to read Passan’s book about pitching and arm injuries, but Trevor Bauer was a part of the story. One of the things that comes out of it is a look at different approaches to injury prevention.
He was a physics and engineering nerd who left HS early to go to UCLA, and follows very unconventional warmup and training regimen.

I’m ready to give up on the stupid fuckin’ NFL. Kelce makes a great catch, has complete control of the ball, gets both feet down in bounds, goes completely out of bounds, then drops the ball while falling down out of bounds. Ruled complete on the field and overturned. MORONIC COCKSUCKERS!

Offensive coordinators fell in love with the jumpball pass in the last several years. I hate it on 4th and goal with the clock running out. Very low percentage play, IMO. I’m having a Harbaugh flashback….

Henry Carr played DB in pros (NY Giants?) didn’t he? Bunch of sprinter guys tried to follow Bob Hayes act into NFL, which usually didn’t end well. Remember Nehemiah getting destroyed?
Most of these guys were track stars first, whereas many football guys like Cliff Branch also did college track in spring.

I live pretty close to the Onondaga Nation. Sovereign territory. The “reservation,” or the “res.” I know several Native Americans. It is not uncommon to see members of that community wearing Redskins gear or car decals as a show of pride. Admittedly, this is anecdotal data.

Not smart on their part. They just don’t get it. The key to political strength is unity, and Native Americans are divided into tribes. ‘Divide and conquer’ has been the strategy against Native Americans from when Columbus first landed in North America. Native Americans could get rid of all the offensive team names and logos within a short time if they could unify over it. But I guess it’s not going to happen. Black people and hispanics gained political power by unifying over causes. What if 100,000 Native Americans went to the Lincoln Memorial to demand the Redskins change their name. It would be awesome.

I remember Ernie Ladd who played for the KC Chiefs in the 60’s / early 70 ‘s also was a big time wrestler with the likes of Pepper Gomez& Ray Stevens back one day. Think Ladd had a teammate Curley Culp? who was a college wrestling champ as well..

Johnny Damon let his hair grow long after he left Oakland. Lincecum had the spotlight, however, on the mound, a couple of years later. What a great Giant he was. He strode into Texas’s stadium and made sure that WS ended in game 5. Bauer didn’t have that power tonight.

this person is someone with the worst sense of humor I know, Therefore, I let him live. It’s a worse sentence to have to walk the earth alive with no sense of humor than it is for me killing him for laughing at that nitwit.

from that dude who measures how hard balls get hit, the arc of the ball, the % of time it’s an HR, etc and blah blah blah….
Daren Willman ‏@darenw 7m7 minutes ago
Francisco Lindor batted .429 (6 for 14) vs pitches 98 MPH+ this season.

I had to explain the electoral map to several people this week, and why the number 270 is important. Bill Maher said the other night that Americans will spend an hour on the internet researching the best place to buy a taco, but they can’t be bothered to know much about how our government functions or basic foreign policy issues.